Tamar Fox
Tamar Fox is an associate editor at MyJewishLearning.com. She has an MFA in fiction writing from Vanderbilt University, and a BA from the University of Iowa. She has worked as the editor of the religion blog at Jewcy.com, and is on the Editorial Board at The Jew and the Carrot. She spent a summer as a fellow at Yeshivat Hadar, and was a Senior Apprentice Artist for four years at Gallery 37 in Chicago.
Articles by Tamar Fox
A New Anne Frank Controversy
There’s a new novel out that imagines the life inside the Annex where Anne Frank and her family lived, told ...
How Do You Say Goal in Hebrew?
If you’re like half the population of the world, you’re pretty interested in that whole World Cup situation that’s going ...
Oh We Will Know They’re Jewish
In Amsterdam, the cops are going to start going undercover as Jews in order to sniff out anti-Semites. According to ...
How Authentically Jewish Is My Chicken Soup?
What does it mean for a recipe to be authentically Jewish? Here at MJL we try to bring you great ...
Floatilla Consensus
Hey, it turns out there’s one thing we can all agree on when it comes to the Floatilla disaster: the ...
Ten Surprising Stories in the Bible
From Snakes to Prostitutes to Vegetarians.
Apology Not Accepted
Today on my lunch break I passed a woman talking loudly on her cell phone. She was obviously upset and ...
A$$-Related Jewish Jewelry
One of my favorite bloggers posted recently about a Kabbalah bracelet she thinks is hot. Bossy wrote: Bossy admits to ...
Get Your Peanuts Out of My Chickpeas!
I love it when hummus is in the news. Partially this is because I love hummus. I had hummus for ...
Who Are Messianic “Jews”?
These Christians observe some Jewish practices, but the major Jewish denominations do not recognize their faith as a form of Judaism.